MY SPECIAL THANKS for support and encouragement with Clara go out to Heather, to Aunt Thea in London, and to Laverne Barnes in Vancouver. Thanks also to Michael Tait in Toronto, and a big Thank You to Ellen Seligman, my publisher, and to Lara Hinchberger, my editor on this novel. All the people who over two generations have added documents and photographs to the file mentioned in the Author’s Note at the beginning of this book have now passed on; I am indebted to them all.